Aerostat Systems Aid U.S. DHS Border Patrols
TCOM, the supplier of airborne persistent surveillance solutions, is supporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to improve U.S. Border Patrol operations in the...
Israeli Company Plasan Opens New HLS Division
Plasan, Israeli developer of protective systems for vehicles, established a new division – the Security Division for HLS. The new division will offer integration...
Hi-Tech Tattoos Could Replace Personal Passwords
Motorola has announced it is looking at alternatives to traditional passwords in the form of tattoos, in a bid to make logging into online...
U.S. Homeland Security to Operate Air Force Border Blimps
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will take over control of the fleet of aerostat radar systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. Until now...
New, Advanced Border Protection Technology for the IDF
After 7 years of development and extensive testing, the IDF officially declared Magna system as a lead technology for border protection and critical cross-point...
Israeli Access Control Solution Wins U.S. Security Award
Entering the office isn't usually perceived to be the most exciting part of the work day, especially if the security level at said office...
A New Company Enters the Access Control Market
Network camera provider AXIS Communications is now also a provider of network access control.
On the opening day of the ASIS International show in Chicago,...
India Will Use New Mini-Drones to Guard its Borders
Stepping up surveillance along the tense border of China and Pakistan, the Indian Army is equipping its troops with hand-held drones. It has floated...
Analysts: DHS Budget Shows Government Doing More With Less
The 2014 funding request from the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows a number of program cuts. Emphasizing the Secretary of Homeland Security's...
Critics say California threatens homeland security
The approval achieved last week in both houses of the California Legislature, granting driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, poses a serious threat to the...
Face Recognition to be Action Tested in the U.S.
Face recognition technology that eventually could be used to identify criminals and terrorists will be tested Sept. 21 at the Toyota Center arena when...
New Cyber Security Solutions for Android Environment
Palo Alto Networks, represented in Israel by Aman Group's Innocom, recently announced that their sandbox environment Wildfire, allowing malware analysis and protection against zero-day...
New systems improve voice recognition
Graduate students and researchers at the University of Texas Dallas have developed novel systems that can identify speaking voices despite conditions that can make...
NetTraveler is back – with some new tricks up its sleeve
The attack vector NetTraveler (a.k.a Netfie, Travnet or Red Star APT), has been detected again. This is a new, advanced threat that has already...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awards $93 million for port...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is allocating $93.2 million in annual port security grants to protect against, mitigate, and respond to terrorist attacks.
The...
U.S. to help India face new security challenges
Washington has agreed to throw open its specialized agencies for advanced training in a range of skills. Three months after the U.S.- India Homeland...
Scanners to stop radioactive materials at ports
This is a worldwide problem - how to stop radioactive materials from being smuggled into a country for the purpose of committing acts of...
DHS awards $6 billion cybersecurity contract
The Department of Homeland Security just awarded contracts to 17 vendors for tools and services to continuously monitor federal systems and networks for cyber...
Ultralight from Sinai – a real threat
Ultralights may be used by terror groups operating in the Sinai deserts; this according to a well informed source.
In the past terrorists tried to...
The Security Market Communications Trends
Very often one can learn about international market trends simply by speaking to the technology providers, that way you also get a wider perspective...
U.S. port facilities vulnerable to cyber attack!
In a 50-page policy paper just released by the Brookings Institute and authored by Commander Joseph Kramek of the U.S. Coast Guard and a...
Optical tracking of people in indoor areas developed by Carnegie Mellon
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for tracking the locations of multiple individuals in complex, indoor settings using a network of...
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Metal That Behaves Like a Gel Could Redefine High-Temperature Systems
A research team at Texas A&M University has developed the world’s first metallic gel — a new class of material that combines the strength...
